Our Fellow Servants

"And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said to me, See, do not do it! I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." Rev 19:10

This scripture brings up two questions for me. One, how are angels my fellow servant, and what is this testimony of Jesus that we share. In trying to answer these questions I came across many interesting Bible verses. For example:


"Then He said to His disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray to the Lord of the harvest that He will send out laborers into His harvest." Mat 9:37,38

We are laborers in the Father's fields. This is further discussed in 1Co 3:4-9 " I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither is he who plants anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. So he planting, and he watering, are one, and each one shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. For of God we are fellow-workers, a field of God, and you are a building of God."

We work with one another, within the body of Christ, in the field to build up the body, and make it a beautiful temple for our Lord to dwell in. Each member of the body contributes to it's growth and harvest, not matter what roll, small or large, that may become.

So the question remains how are Angels our Fellow-servants?

In Jesus illustration of the field of the Kingdom of God. Angels are entrusted as reapers.

"The enemy who sowed them is the Devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels." Mat 13:39 This is further shown in Revelation.

"And another angel came out of the temple in Heaven, also having a sharp sickle. And another angel came out from the altar, who had authority over fire. And he spoke with a great cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe. And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the anger of God." Rev 14:17-19

Not only though are Angels appointed to reaping. They also are entrusted with the care of "Who will inherit salvation." Heb. 1:14 Does that not mean us as God's Children? Peter was spoken of as having a personal angel in Acts 12:15, who aided him in his escape from the Romans and in fufilling his ministry. This also happened in the Old testement. Angel were sent to aid God's servant to fufill thier duties before the Father. "And the angel of Jehovah came to him the second time and touched him, and said, Arise, eat, because the journey is too great for you." 1Ki 19:7

Many times Angels are given messages and information to be delivered to a prophet, or servant of God. (2 Kings 19:45)(Rev. 22:16) It may be a condemnation that is to be proclaimed to the erroring nation, or just comfort for the hearers heart only, as in Zec 1:13 "And Jehovah answered the angel who talked with me with good words, comfortable words." When Jesus was distressed or in need of strengthening The Father would send an angel to comfort and encourage him. "And an angel appeared to Him from Heaven, strengthening Him." Luk 22:43

How comforting to know that we are so loved that our Father uses Angels to help us down our road to Salvation.

And this brings us to how Angels and ourselves give the Testimony of Jesus.

1Jo 5:10 Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.

Through belief in Jesus the Word of God we give testimony to Jesus and therefore declare that God is true and holy. Jesus is also called the Spirit of Prophecy because in him are the fufillment of the promises given to those who obey him. So when we give the Testimony of Jesus we also prophecy and declare the Glory of God. As children of God we have this honor to spend our lives bringing the testimony of Jesus to the ears of believers. Angels through their work also testify to Jesus, and soon will aid in bringing to fruitation the Kingdom of our Lord.

In researching the Testimony of Jesus I discovered beautiful parallels to the restoration of the Ark of the Covenant or Ark of Testimony, to it's heavenly home. But that is a subject for another time.